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  1. Library Resource
    FAO Support to Land Consolidation in Europe and Central Asia During 2002-2018 cover image

    Experiences and way forward

    Peer-reviewed publication
    February, 2019
    Central Asia, Cyprus, Turkey, Europe, Greece, Spain

    Shortly after the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) was founded in 1945, the organization had started to support member countries addressing structural problems in agriculture with land fragmentation and small holding and farm sizes through the development of land consolidation instruments (Binns, 1950). During the 1950s and 1960s, FAO provided technical assistance to the development of land consolidation in member countries in Europe such as Turkey, Greece, Spain and Cyprus, but also in the Near East and Asia (Meliczek, 1973).

  2. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2014

    Nowadays many seaside towns, economically based on marine tourism, need operations to reinvent and recovery their own image and to define a new strategy of urban development. The presence of the sea is of primary importance and it should be considered not only as an economic resource, but mainly as a strong element of identity that must interact with the urban landscape.

  3. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2009

    RESUMEN Este trabajo analiza la influencia de algunas características espaciales sobre los precios por noche de casas rurales en Gran Canaria. Se estimó para ello un modelo de precios hedónicos que incluye en su formulación ciertos atributos espaciales de la casa, tales como el número de vecinos en un radio determinado. Estas variables fueron calculadas por medio de un Sistema de Información Geográfica (SIG). También se analizaron otros factores incluidos tradicionalmente en estos modelos, como las características estructurales de la casa y la distancia a lugares de interés.

  4. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2000
    Mexico, Central America, South America

    The insufficient supply of serviced land at affordable prices for
    the urban poor and the need for regularization of the consequent
    illegal occupations in urban areas are two of the most
    important issues on the Latin American land policy agenda.
    Taking a structural/integrated view on the functioning
    of the urban land market in Latin America, this paper discusses
    the nexus between the formal and the informal land markets. It
    thus exposes the perverse feedback effects that curative regularization

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2014
    Europe

    Haliç (The Golden Horn) is a mythical place that belongs not only to the history of Istanbul but to the whole of Europe. At Haliç land and sea merge: the natural harbour of ancient Constantinople, home to the naval arsenal and place of delights, it saw its natural and urban state change completely in the final phases of the Ottoman Empire. Its recent history has been marked by a process of intense industrialization, developing uncontrollably on its banks between the 19th and 20th centuries.

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2014
    Italy, Europe

    We  highlight the mysterious liquidity that oversees the interpretation of the nature of the relation sea and cities, using to hyperbole from James Conrad in " Heart of Darkness ", while the reference to Saskia Sassen highlights the need of strong policies in the governance of reciprocity relationships. The heart of darkness continues to envelop the sea-land relations , as witnessed by the suffering of migrants on the sea and also the new faces of the suffering city ( migrant's reception centers in Italy) . It is believed that culture has a role in unraveling the mystery.

  7. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    August, 2015

    No presente trabalho busca-se esclarecer o papel do Estudo de Impacto de Vizinhança (EIV) como instrumento de controle e requalificação da ocupação urbana. Para isso, detalhou-se os aspectos do EIV estabelecidos pelo Estatuto da Cidade. Em seguida, verifica-se as condições de aplicação do instrumento no Distrito Federal por meio de análise da legislação existente. Como contribuição para uma melhor compreensão do EIV, analisa-se a relação desse com os demais instrumentos da política urbana de âmbito municipal.

  8. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2014
    Netherlands

    The Netherlands has a coastline of over 400 miles but they have always been characterized by an uneasy relationship with the sea. Because of geomorphology that puts the country on average 5 meters below sea level, the Dutch urban planning, at all levels of government, has always questioned the need to defend themselves from river and marine flooding; over the centuries it has developed a pragmatic approach , enshrined in various national laws and in the establishment of the Ministry of Water Management, which has set as its main objective the defense of the territory from the water.

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